Crossword-Solution: SCAPOLITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scapolite | n. | A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda. |
Anagrams
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| SCAPOLITE | anagram | ALOPECIST, ALTISCOPE |
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| any of a group of colourless, white, grey, or violet fluorescent minerals | 1 answer |
| Gem | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCAMEE
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Sentences with SCAPOLITE (5)
From the table above it will be observed that many minerals are omitted which, even if they are of common occurrence, are more to be regarded as accessory than as essential components of the rocks in which they are found.[3] Such are, for example, Garnet, Epidote, Tourmaline, Idocrase, Andalusite, Scapolite, the various Zeolites, and several other silicates of somewhat rarer occurrence.
The severe crushing to which the rock has been subjected has resulted in the conversion of the plagioclase into scapolite and also in the formation of zoisite by the characteristic alteration of the lime bearing silicate of the feldspar in conjunction with other constituents of the rock.
Garnet [.R]^{3}[...Si] + [.R=][...Si] Oligoclase [.Na][...Si] + [...Al=][...Si]^{2} Scapolite ([.Ca][.Na])^{3}[...Si]^{2} + 2[...Al=][...Si] Int.
Kaolin and muscovite are formed principally after felspar (and the felspars are the commonest minerals of all crystalline rocks); also from nepheline, leucite, scapolite and a variety of other rock-forming minerals.
Although they are certainly for the most part igneous gneisses (or orthogneisses), rocks occur along with them, such as marbles, scapolite limestones, and corundum rocks, which were probably of sedimentary origin.